Patents by Inventor Thomas P. Sauro

Thomas P. Sauro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220296330
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assembly for storing, dispensing, disposing, and shipping medical products such as sharps or pharmaceuticals. The assembly includes an outer container, an inner container, a unit configured for storing and dispensing unused medical products such as sharps or pharmaceuticals, and for receiving used medical sharps or unused pharmaceuticals. The inner container is adapted to receive the unit, and the outer container is adapted to receive the inner container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: James Erickson, Thomas P. Sauro
  • Patent number: 10252008
    Abstract: A sharps container for safe storage of used pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof having a substantially non-porous housing which includes a receiver which receives and actively conveys external pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof into the interior of the housing; an internal storage compartment sized to facilitate the safe storage of a plurality of used pen needles or syringe needles and optional needle covers. The internal storage compartment including a material capable of absorbing and storing fluids which may incidentally be associated with the used pen needles or syringe needles. The receiver for pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof is visually distinguished from the surrounding portions of the housing by one or both of having a different color or different color patterning relative to the surrounding housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ULTIMED INC.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Erickson, James J. Erickson, Thomas P. Sauro
  • Publication number: 20150313673
    Abstract: A sharps container for safe reception and storage of used pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof comprises a substantially non-porous housing which includes a means for receiving said pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof in an internal storage compartment sized to facilitate the safe storage of a plurality of used pen needles or syringe needles and optional needle covers. The internal storage compartment may include a material capable of absorbing and storing fluids which may incidentally be associated with the used pen needles or syringe needles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: ULTIMED INC.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Erickson, James J. Erickson, Thomas P. Sauro
  • Publication number: 20090236347
    Abstract: A sharps container for safe reception and storage of used pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof comprises a substantially non-porous housing which includes a means for receiving said pen needles, pen needle assemblies, syringe needles, syringe needle covers, and combinations thereof in an internal storage compartment sized to facilitate the safe storage of a plurality of used pen needles or syringe needles and optional needle covers. The internal storage compartment may include a material capable of absorbing and storing fluids which may incidentally be associated with the used pen needles or syringe needles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: UltiMed Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Erickson, James J. Erickson, Thomas P. Sauro